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The Solid Green blog features the latest in green industry news from here in South Africa and around the world, and documents our journey as we continue to make waves as a major player in the South African Green Building landscape. Join us for the ride!
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Solid Insight: Your One-Stop Solution
Whether used as a live dashboard in a building foyer, for carbon-emissions reporting or to manage distributed solar production, Solid Insight brings energy and water data to the age of cloud computing.
+24th August 2016
Test Driving our Electric Cars
Solid Green’s BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf gave delegates at the Green Building Convention 2016 a taste of the future of transport.
+24th August 2016
Our New EDGE Accredited Professionals
Solid Green congratulates our eight new EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) Accredited Professionals!
+24th August 2016
Six stars for Solid Green’s own offices
In being awarded SA’s first 6-Star Green Star SA Interiors v1 certification for its Rosebank offices, Solid Green has achieved a significant milestone – demonstrating, once again, its commitment to sustainable building design, practice and innovation.
+8th July 2016
Revolutionising Energy Efficiency Simulation in the design of homes
The engineers at Solid Green have been applying their minds to reducing the cost and difficulty of performing Energy Efficiency Simulation, producing a bespoke software and automation solution that answers the most common architectural questions on projects.
+6th July 2016
Seed Capital: Jozi Urban Farms
The urban farming movement is a challenge to ideas about growing food in the city, planting on sidewalks, roofs, sports fields, in alleyways or in underutilised spaces. Solid Green – soon to launch an urban farming project in Rosebank – is excited to discover the local movement is maturing.
+6th July 2016
EDGE Services
How does EDGE work? The developer and professional team perform a self-assessment of the proposed design. They may get a sustainability consultant to help them achieve EDGE compliance and ensure all details are correctly entered into…
+19th May 2016
Heritage & regeneration: The Mix in Sophiatown
With a 5-Star Green Star SA Public and Education Buildings certification targeted, Solid Green’s pro bono involvement with The Mix’s Trevor Huddleston CR Memorial Building – a cultural, heritage and enterprise space in Sophiatown hosting the Sophiatown Green Incubator and serving as a venue for film, theatre, dance and arts ventures – is a point of pride for the company.
+11th May 2016
Implementing a comprehensive green vision
With a full range of expert services, Solid Green demonstrates its resolve to stay at the cutting edge of green-building accreditation and data management, and to make it easy for clients to implement the best building practices, invest in the financial and operational benefits of greening, and match demand for designs that benefit health and productivity.
+11th May 2016
Solid Insight targets Green City Startup top three
Solid Green looks forward to August when Johannesburg’s Green City Startup will decide if Solid Insight, Solid Green’s data- and resource-management platform, places in the Green City Startup top three, a placement which promises between R300 000 and R1 million in prizes and development grants.
+11th May 2016
Google (JHB) awarded 5-star Green Star SA Interiors certification
Having clinched the International Green Interior Award 2015 – aided by strong teamwork between Solid Green and Ecocentric Green Building Consultants – Google’s Johannesburg office has now been awarded 5-star Green Star SA Interiors certification.
+11th May 2016
4 Stan Road receives 4-Star plaque
The 4 Stan Road development – this boutique office development in the heart of Sandton recently received an award plaque for its 4-star Green Star SA Office v1 Design certification. The building has two distinct aspects: the façade facing Stan Road and a north-facing façade which is a fully glazed unitised performance façade.
+15th April 2016
Health is the new Green!
Health is a much neglected aspect of building green. Marloes Reinink explains how Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), which is concerned with (among other things) daylight, fresh air, thermal comfort and views, can be crucial to ensuring that buildings are healthy spaces for occupants.
+29th February 2016
EDGE: Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies
The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA), The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and The National Home Builder Registration Council (NHBRC) are to partner with Solid Green Consulting to implement the EDGE standard in South Africa, involving a 20% reduction in building energy use, water use, and embodied material energy.
+29th February 2016
Streetlight Schools: Leading the way in Green Education
2016 sees Streetlight Schools launch its first project in a mixed-use development near Jeppe Park – at the heart of Johannesburg’s inner city. With Solid Green in consultation, the school’s operational location at Jeppe Park Primary has been awarded a 4-Star Green Star SA Interiors rating.
+29th February 2016
Solid Green Takes Top Honours At 2015 Green Star Awards
Solid Green’s strong performance at the 2015 Green Star SA Leadership Awards marks its continuing success and expansion. Once again, the company has shown that it is at the top-tier of the South African green-building industry with its work on the Monte Circle Building A building and 6-Star-rated Upper Grayston building in Sandton, Johannesburg.
+12th November 2015
Standard Bank Simmonds Street Rating in Asset magazine
The recent 5 Star Green Star SA Interiors Rating for Standard Bank Simmonds Street, with Solid Green as consultants, has been featured in the September edition of Asset magazine. The article discusses the significance of this certification.
+26th October 2015
Solid Green celebrated in online media
Menlyn Maine’s Pegasus, Solid Green’s 20th Green Star SA certification has been celebrated in Property Wheel and Asset. The online journals discusses the significance of this achievement and why Solid Green has become a prominent leader in the industry.
+26th October 2015
The grass is greener – Solid Green in Asset
Solid Green has been featured in the September edition of Asset, the commercial property magazine with substance. The article features an interview with Solid Green Consulting founder Marloes Reinink where she chats about her lifelong interest in sustainability and why the industry still has a long way to go
+26th October 2015
4 Stars for Pegasus marks Solid Green milestone
With the certification of Menlyn Maine, Solid Green achieved its 20th Green Star SA certification – an impressive total comprising a substantial portion of all Green Star SA certifications, as acknowledged by Manfred Braune, Chief Technical Officer at the Green Building Council South Africa, earlier this year.
+26th October 2015
Complete your SANS10400 XA assessments online
Introducing Solid XA, an innovative web app developed by Solid Green to take the hassle out of completing and submitting your SANS10400 XA Rational Path to Compliance assessments. Get an instant quote on your assessment and create and manage your projects for free easily through your web browser.
+7th October 2015
Solid Green certified LEVEL 2 B-BBEE Contributor
Solid Green has been certified as a LEVEL 2 Contributor to B-BBEE for 2015-16 achieving an overall score of 88.46 out of 100 as a Qualifying Small Enterprise. LEVEL 2 is the second highest rating and denotes a 135% BEE recognition level. Download Certificate.
+7th May 2015
Block F first 6 Star Green Star Building in Joburg
Upper Grayston Block F, with Solid Green as the sustainable building consultant, has become the first building to achieve a 6 Star Green Star SA Office v1 As built Rating in Gauteng. The office block, situated just off Ann Cresent in the heart of Sandton, has been lauded as demonstrating ‘World Leadership’ in the South African sustainability sphere.
+20th March 2015
Green Building Interiors
Marloes presented at the CPD seminar titled Enhanced Green Building Ratings using Product Certification and Life Cycle Assessment.
+3rd March 2015
A New Leaf for 2015: Solid Green’s Revamp
Solid Green has revamped its offices early this year, and we’ve built a new website too as we continue to evolve with the times. Because we want to “be the change we want to see” we decided to do the offices refurbishment the green way and have the new interiors certified.
+9th February 2015
Solid Green Office Revamp Begins
The renovations have started and we have planned to move back into our green offices beginning of February. We are targeting a minimum 5 star Green Star Interior v1 rating and a LEED Gold Interior Certification. A green wall is going to be one of the many green features of our offices. This is exciting!
+27th January 2015
Building Modelling at Solid Green
This article comprises a breakdown of the comprehensive accreditation and performance modelling and simulation which we perform on our buildings at Solid Green.
+21st January 2015
Solid Green End Year function 2014
To celebrate the wrapping up of a very successful and enjoyable year, the Solid Green team headed to Little Addis in inner Jozi for our 2014 year-end function, to be surrounded by the vibrant sights, sounds and smells of an undeniably alive urban landscape.
+12th December 2014
NELM project featured in Earthworks magazine
Solid Green Consulting founder Marloes Reinink, who has worked on the National English Literary Museum project in Grahamstown, says because most often libraries are public buildings with modest budgets that rule out expensive HVAC systems, architects are required to implement core elements of passive design from the start.
+2nd December 2014
Leading by Example: Greening the Solid Green Offices
Here at Solid Green, we have undertaken the challenge of Green Star certifying our own office space, both as an example to other smallish businesses of how this can be achieved, and of course in the name of a sustainable future.
+16th November 2014
Solid Green takes Top Honours at Green Star Leadership Awards 2014
For the second year running Solid Green has picked up the coveted Established Green Star award at the annual Green Star Leadership Awards at the Green Building Convention in Cape Town. This year it was Chilu Lombe who took the honour, following in Marloes Reinink’s foot steps who took the award in 2013.
+16th November 2014
Four new Green Star certifications for Solid Green Projects
Just before the holidays kicked in we received the results of 4 of our submissions.We are incredibly proud to be involved with these projects. This brings the number of certifications to 8 for Solid Green. The following projects received their certification:
+16th January 2014
Two GBCSA Green Star Awards for Solid Green
Solid Green was awarded 2 Green Star awards at the GBCSA Rewire 2013 Convention in Cape Town (16-18 October). We won the award for “Best Quality Submission 2012/13” for the National English Literacy Museum (NELM) in Grahamstown.
+28th October 2013
Environmental Affairs Office Achieves 6 Stars
The new Department of Environmental Affairs office building being constructed in Pretoria has achieved a 6 Star Green Star Office v1 Design rating. The building achieved the highest score for a large commercial office space in South Africa.
+7th June 2013
Solid Green Company Profile
Below you will find the latest Solid Green Company Profile brochure. If you are having issues viewing it through your browser, please download the pdf version.
+22nd May 2013
SANS 10400 XA Presentation given at Durban City Council
Solid Green Consulting recently had the opportunity to present on the SANS 10400 XA rational assessment path to compliance at the Durban City Council. You can view the full presentation below.
+24th April 2013
SANS 10400 Part XA Design and Assessment
The new energy regulations allow for two paths to show compliance. Deemed-to-satisfy and rational assessment paths to compliance. Solid Green has experience in performing a wide variety of rational assessments for buildings ranging from free standing residences to large retail complexes.
+15th March 2013
Alice Lane gets 4 Green Stars
The first phase of the Alice Lane development received a 4-star Green Star SA Office v1 Design certification from the Green Building Council SA. Abland Properties is the developer of this development. Solid Green is the Green Building Consultant.
+19th February 2013
Marloes featured in Earth Works Magazine
Marloes Reinink, founder of Solid Green Consulting and runner up in the category of Recognised Green Star for contribution to the industry at the GBCSA Leadership Awards, has recently been featured in Earth Works magazine.
+19th February 2013
Brydens Upper Grayston Block E Achieves 5 Star As Built Rating
The Upper Grayston Block E office development has achieved 67 points under Green Star SA Office v1 which has earned it a 5 star As Built rating. It is the highest rated 5 star building in South Africa, and the first to go from a 4 star Design rating to a 5 Star As Built rating.
+19th November 2012
DesignBuilder Certification Formally Issued for SANS 10400 Part XA
Agrément has formally issed a certificate to DesignBuilder software to approve it as certified thermal calculation software for the rational design path to compliance for SANS 10400 Part XA. Click below to see the certificate.
+8th October 2012
Brydens Upper Grayston Block E Receives 4 Star Green Star Design Rating
Solid Green Consulting was appointed to manage the Green Star process, as well as undertake performance modelling and simulation to inform the design of the building and its systems. It is the second Green Star rating delivered by Solid Green.
+30th January 2012
First Green Star MUR certification in SA
40-on-Oak has received the first Green Star SA Multi-Unit Residential certification in South Africa. 40-on-Oak, located within the Melrose Arch precinct in Johanneburg, was one of six projects that were registered for the Multi-Unit Residential (MUR) PILOT programme run by the GBCSA.
+25th October 2011
Anglo American Reinvention
Solid Green was part of the team that won the Anglo American Reinvention architectural competition. The team consisting of Kate Otten Architects and Mashabane Rose Associates, ARUP, and Davis Langdon. The winning design was presented to the judges in August 2011.
+23rd October 2011
